GENEROUS Brits hand over billions of pounds to charity every year.
It is big business and sadly our expose on Scotia Aid shows that, in some cases, as little as 13% of the money raised goes to the causes charities claim to be helping.
The bosses at Scotia Aid should hang their heads in shame at how much money they have put in their own pockets and how little has helped disease-stricken children in Africa.
It stinks and needs an urgent inquiry by the charity regulator.
More worrying is the impact these corruption allegations have on the rest of the charity sector.Charity scandal: Fat-cat pay for bosses as just 13p in pound goes to kids – click hereThe thousands of charities that use every single penny they receive to aid their cause do not deserve to be tarred with this brush.
But it is scandals like the one we have exposed that can erode the public’s faith in good causes.
Amazingly, the UK charity sector employs more than a million staff more than our car, aerospace and chemical sectors combined.
There are a lot of vested interests now at play and regulators need to ensure that outfits like Scotia Aid are very much the exception, or people will stop giving.
And it will be those in dire need of help who will ultimately suffer.Revealed: Shady property deals that earn charities a fortune but cost taxpayers millions – click here
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